GCSE 354

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Mơn: TIẾNG ANH – ĐỀ SỐ 354
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Ho va tên thi sinh:……………………………………………………………………. SBD:…………………………
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines
each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Question 01: No one knows what colour dinosaurs were. No sample of their skin has survived.
A. No one knows what colour dinosaurs were which is because no sample of their skin has
survived.
B. No sample of dinosaurs' skin has survived because no one knows what colour they were.
C. No one knows what colour dinosaurs were because no sample of their skin has survived.
D. Because no one knows what colour dinosaurs were, no sample of their skin has survived.
Question 02: We have been friends for years. It is quite easy to share secrets between us.
A. We find it quite easy to share secrets, being friends for years.
B. Being friends for years, we find it quite easy to share secrets.
C. We have been friends for years so that it is quite easy to share secrets between us.
D. Having been friends for years, we find quite easy to share secrets between us.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 03 to 07.
WHY MARRIAGE LEADS TO A LONG LIFE
An analysis of the benefits of relationships has confirmed a truth that many have long held
to be self-evident: marriage is good for you. Not only does it (03)________ physical health in men
and mental well-being in women, but the longer it lasts, the greater the benefits all round,
resulting in a longer and more satisfying life. A study (04)________ millions of people over many
years across seven European countries, has (05)________ that married couples had mortality rates

I0 -15 per cent below the population as a factor. This figure rises with the longevity of a marriage.
The selection hypothesis argues that well-adjusted individuals are more likely to establish
long-term relationships, suggesting that the determining (06)________ might not be marriage itself,
but more the kind of people who are likely to wed and stay wed. The authors of the study argue
that commitment is also (07)________ to higher living standards, with the associated network of
supportive families, shared friends and healthy lifestyles bringing a range of benefits.
[From: “READY FOR ADVANCED, Course book”, Roy Norris. Macmillan, 2018]
Question 03: A. endure
B. enhance
C. enjoy
D. enchant
Question 04: A. implying
B. composing
C. consisting
D. involving
Question 05: A. manifested
B. revealed
C. exposed
D. considered
Question 06: A. moment
B. factor
C. part
D. event
Question 07: A. linked
B. joined
C. combined
D. blended
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part
differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 08: A. mixture

B. future
C. failure
D. measure
Question 09: A. taxi
B. anxiety
C. maximum
D. fox
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct answer to each of the questions from 10 to 15.
THE WORLD'S MOST UNUSUAL JOB APPLICATIONS ... EVER!
Job hunting is one of the most stressful times in your life. You can spend hours perfecting a
CV or filling in online application forms. For many people, the result is the same: a polite 'no thank
you'. You know you have the personal qualities to do the job, but you can only show them when
you meet your employer face to face. So how can you get that elusive interview? Here are some of
the most surprising ways, and they're all real.


One of the very best was the job applicant who arrived at a company with a takeaway pizza,
with his CV printed on the box. The interview took place while they ate and the applicant got the
job before they had finished. In this case, it's important to pick the right toppings. Crime was the
inspiration for Kelly Weihs of Baltimore, USA. Looking for a job as a designer, she decided to show
off her design work with her own CV. She used a series of old fonts and interesting colours to
make her CV look like a nineteenth-century Wanted poster from the Wild West. Her imaginative
approach worked and she got the job.
However, it can be risky to make a CV like this. Kelly's poster idea was perfect because she
was looking for a job in design. Other people make less intelligent CV decisions. For example, some
job candidates record a video of themselves singing for their new potential employers, even if they
are only applying for a position as a PA. This is never going to work. It's too obvious that the
candidate wants to be in the more exciting world of the music business, not answering the phones
all day in an accountant's offices.

America seems to be the home of the creative CV, no doubt because it has one of the
world's largest populations and thousands of people are competing for every job. Think about the
poor managers who have to read through hundreds and hundreds of applications in a day. It's one
of the most boring jobs in the world. Anyone might start thinking about more interesting things,
like a break for coffee. So imagine what happens when you get a free chocolate bar, completely out
of the blue, with a CV wrapped around it. That's was Nick Begley's big idea. Nick printed his CV on
a chocolate wrapper with his skills in the ingredients section. He then placed it around a Nestle
Crunch bar and he sent it in. It paid off immediately because Begley got two job offers and ended
up working in ... you guessed it, marketing.
So if you want to stand out from the crowd, try one of these ideas for yourself. Just
remember that if you apply for a job at my company, I hate anchovies and black olives.
Question 10: This blog has been written to_________
A. entertain people.
B. train people.
C. criticise people. D. shock people.
Question 11: When did the applicant with the pizza apply for the job?
A. When he brought the pizza to the company. B. When he saw the job advertisement
online.
C. When they had eaten the whole pizza.
D. When he received the order for the pizza.
Question 12: The video idea may not be successful because_________
A. people were shocked by the loud music and the dancing.
B. it was the riskiest idea.
C. it showed the person wanted a different job.
D. nobody watched it.
Question 13: Kelly Weihs got her inspiration from_________
A. adverts.
B. history.
C. books.
D. paintings.

Question 14: What does the writer mean by out of the blue in the passage?
A. In the beginning.
B. At the wrong time.
C. Without warning.
D. When you are feeling tired.
Question 15: From the text, we understand that the author's favourite CV idea was_________
A. the Wanted poster.
B. the video with singing.
C. the pizza box.
D. the chocolate bar.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning
to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 16: I bet that computer knocked you back several hundred.
A. cost you
B. wasted up to
C. helped you to save D. won back for you
Question 17: We drove through a barren, rocky landscape.
A. unproductive
B. narrow
C. dry
D. not fresh
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in
meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 18: He's dead on his feet after the long run.
A. out of his ears
B. got deep feet
C. as fresh as a daisy D. head over heels
Question 19: Relations between those two nation leaders are said to be cordial.
A. detached
B. frigid

C. amiable
D. friendly


Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes
each of the following exchanges.
Question 20: ~ Kelvin: “You seem to have never been bed ridden.” ~ Alan: “____________”
A. Yes. My eldest sister works as a nurse at the local hospital.
B. I keep fit by going jogging every day.
C. Never. Only on winter days.
D. Luckily, we got in before the downpour.
Question 21: ~ Carson: “____________”
~ Boy: “I am. I need to lose some weight.”
A. Have you ever been on a diet?
B. Are you having diabetes?
C. This dress seems too tight on you, Betty. D. I don’t like girls with fat thighs.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the
other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 22: A. exhaustion
B. exercise
C. exchange
D. examine
Question 23: A. maternity
B. beautifully
C. generalize
D. comfortable
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in
meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 24: Parents can't expect to raise their children without making any sacrifices for them.
A. Children expect their parents to make an awful lot of sacrifices for them.

B. Raising a child is probably the most self-sacrificing thing a person can do.
C. Bringing up children is not always a painless experience for parents.
D. Parents have to be prepared to give up some things for their children while bringing
them up.
Question 25: With your qualifications, it would be surprising if you didn't find a job.
A. If you want to find a job, you should become better qualified.
B. The better your qualifications, the more likely you are to find a job.
C. You are so well-qualified that you are almost certain to find a job.
D. I wonder why you haven’t found a job, because you have such good qualifications
Question 26: They were being very secretive about what had happened at yesterday's meeting.
A. Whatever happened at yesterday's meeting, it's obvious that they won’t let it be known
by others.
B. They wouldn't give out anything about the things that occurred at the meeting the
previous day.
C. They told everyone that whatever had happened at the previous meeting was going to be
kept secret.
D. The contents of the meeting held the previous day were confidential, so they refused to
talk about them.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct answer to each of the questions from 27 to 33.
REAL-LIFE ROMEOS
When we use the word Romeo for a romantic young man, we hardly think of the character
from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. But a sure sign of an author having created a
successful character is that the character's name enters the language and becomes a word. Despite
only writing in Spanish, Shakespeare's contemporary Cervantes achieved the feat of creating a new
word in a different language - English, the adjective quixotic. This word comes from the title
character of Cervantes' Don Quixote. It describes a person who has great imagination and makes
incredible plans, but whose plans are unfortunately impossible to achieve.
One author who was particularly successful in seeing his characters enter the language was
the novelist Charles Dickens. In modern English a Scrooge is used to describe someone who is

mean and tries to avoid spending money at all. The word comes from the protagonist of Dickens's
novella A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge, who treats the employees who work in his office
poorly and makes them work in terrible conditions. As well as Scrooge, Dickens also had success
with Fagin, the villain of Oliver Twist. In the novel Fagin controlled a group of child criminals. His
name is often used in the press to describe real-life adult leaders of youthful gangs.


The Victorian era (1837-1901) in which Dickens wrote was a major period for the English
novel. At the end of the nineteenth century, the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson achieved
enormous success with his masterpiece Treasure Island. Stevenson also brought two of his
characters into everyday speech. A Jekyll and Hyde character is a person whose personality can
quickly change from being kind to being angry, impolite or aggressive. The name comes from the
scientist protagonist of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde whose strange experiments turn him from man to
murderous monster, and back again. Stevenson was not alone in seeing success from the field of
Gothic Horror. At the age of twenty one, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, and the name of her
mad scientist is now used as an adjective to describe any kind of science that seems to be out of
control. Frankenstein foods, for example, is a term that people can understand to describe
genetically modified ingredients.
It does seem strange that villains enter the language more often than heroes. Sometimes in
fact these characters need hardly appear in the original work at all. The television series Big
Brother is named after the all-powerful dictator who rules the London of the future in George
Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Big Brother himself is never encountered during the story:
we only ever see his face on posters along with the ominous message 'Big Brother is Watching
You'. This is why the presence of more and more cameras watching the streets, and greater
government controls over the everyday lives of people, has led to the suggestion that we live in a
'Big Brother society'. Interestingly, Orwell achieved the double feat of creating a character that has
entered the language as well as entering the language himself. The word Orwellian is used to
describe a society which tries to control every aspect of people's lives, as happened in the pages of
Nineteen Eighty Four. Like the novel, it's a word that seems to be getting more and more popular
all the time.

[From SPOTLIGHT ON FIRST, Exam Booster, Cengage Learning, 2015]
Question 28: How does the writer feel about genetically modified foods?
A. He opposes them.
B. He thinks they taste horrible.
C. He thinks they are an amazing scientific achievement. D. He is undecided.
Question 29: What was Ebenezer Scrooge?
A. a criminal
B. a businessman
C. a hero
D. a very poor man
Question 30: The word 'quixotic'_________
A. is a criticism.
B. is very old-fashioned.
C. can mean one of two things.
D. is a comptiment.
Question 31: What is the effect of the posters of Big Brother?
A. They advertise a television programme.
B. They give people orders.
C. They make people feel nervous
D. They are used in election campaigns.
Question 5: What kind of people use the word 'Fagin'?
A. criminals
B. journalists
C. politicians
D. children
Question 32: What does the writer mean by 'Stevenson also brought two of his characters into
everyday speech'?
A. The characters spoke very naturally.
B. The characters were named after words people used in their daily lives.
C. The author changed the characters' names to make them more popular.

D. The names of the characters are used by people as part of a common expression.
Question 33: The word “ominous” is opposite in meaning to_________
A. well-timed
B. benevolent
C. auspicious
D. ill-fated
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs
correction in each of the following questions.
Question 34: We had better to review this chapter carefully because we will have some questions
on it on our test tomorrow.
A. carefully
B. better to review
C. on our test
D. have some
Question 35: No one in our office wants to drive to work any more because that there are always
traffic jams at rush hour.
A. wants
B. at rush hour
C. because that
D. are
Question 36: Many of the population in the rural areas is composed of manual labourers.


A. is composed

B. labourers

C. in the

D. Many

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 37: Be quite! It’s rude to________ people when they are speaking.
A. interrupt
B. interfere
C. prevent
D. introduce
Question 38: Sometimes advertising signs________ down during a storm and people are injured by
them. A. blew
B. blow
C. were blown
D. are blown
Question 39: He________ me to buy my air ticket immediately or it would be too late.
A. suggested
B. convinced
C. advised
D. insisted
Question 40: There are many________ on television where a team of people have to answer
questions.
A. riddles
B. quizzes
C. puzzles
D. inquiries
Question 41: When he left school, Tom decided to________ a priest instead of studying languages.
A. train for
B. study for
C. change to
D. become
Question 42: Don’t worry about trying to catch the last train home, as we can easily________ you up

for the night.
A. put
B. keep
C. take D. set
Question 43: He is known________ a man who keeps his word.
A. in
B. for
C. at
D. as
Question 44: ~ "You look so exhausted." ~ "I________ round the town all day."
A. ran
B. had run
C. had been running D. have been running
Question 45: I am late because my alarm clock never________ this morning.
A. rang out
B. came on
C. went off
D. turned on
Question 46: I walked away as calmly as I could________ they thought I was the thief.
A. to avoid
B. in case
C. owing to
D. or else
Question 47: His________ had always been to become an architect.
A. imagination
B. want
C. direction
D. ambition
Question 48: The tenants were________ not to disturb other tenants after 1 p.m.
A. requested

B. appealed
C. demanded
D. informed
Question 49: Since________ 1600s, worldwide overexploitation of animals for________ food and other
products has caused numerous species to become extinct or endangered.
A. the/ a
B. the/ Ø
C. Ø/ the
D. the/ the
Question 50: I want you to________ your best clothes tonight for the party.
A. wore
B. dress
C. put on
D. hung up.
________THE END_______